Holy Scripture

Genesis 12:3

A church father on this verse
“Abraham, styled "the friend," [Isaiah 41:8] was found faithful, inasmuch as he rendered obedience to the words of God. He, in the exercise of obedience, went out from his own country, and from his kindred, and from his father's house, in order that, by forsaking a small territory, and a weak family, and an insignifica…”
Clement of Rome, 1th c. — Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 10

Source: Septuagint

Original

3And I will bless those that bless thee, and curse those that curse thee, and in thee shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed.

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In context

1And the Lord said to Abram, Go forth out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and out of the house of thy father, and come into the land which I shall show thee.

2And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

— Genesis 12:3 —

4And Abram went as the Lord spoke to him, and Lot departed with him, and Abram was seventy-five years old, when he went out of Haran.

5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had gotten, and every soul which they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan.

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